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Author: Madeline Y. Hsu
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Volume: 127
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.539kg
ISBN: 9780691176215
ISBN 10: 0691176213
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 11 April 2017
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Language: English
Reviews
Winner of the 2017 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in History Winner of the 2016 Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Winner of the 2015 Douglass C. North Research Award, Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics (SIOE) Runner-up for the 2016 Hamilton Book Awards, University Co-operative Society, University of Texas at Austin Winner of the 2015 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society Honor Book, 2015 Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature, Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Hsu's well-researched study focuses on the ways in which certain categories of the same ethnic group were designated as exempt and thus permitted admission... A worthy read, as it fills a gap in our understanding of the history of U.S. immigration policy and the implications of this policy in educational history. --Eileen H. Tamura, History of Education Quarterly This book will ... provide relevant historical context for anybody formulating ideas about Europe's current debate on migration and asylum-seeking. --Charlotte De Blois, Asian Affairs The Good Immigrants provides much insight on a variety of topics. Those who want to learn more about US immigration policies, cultural relations between the US and China during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Chinese refugees during the 1940s to 1960s, and Chinese transpacific migration will not want to miss it. --Chi-ting Peng, Pacific Affairs
Winner of the 2016 Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Winner of the 2015 Douglass C. North Research Award, Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics (SIOE) Runner-up for the 2016 Hamilton Book Awards, University Co-operative Society, University of Texas at Austin Winner of the 2015 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society Honor Book, 2015 Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature, Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Hsu's well-researched study focuses on the ways in which certain categories of the same ethnic group were designated as exempt and thus permitted admission... A worthy read, as it fills a gap in our understanding of the history of U.S. immigration policy and the implications of this policy in educational history. --Eileen H. Tamura, History of Education Quarterly This book will ... provide relevant historical context for anybody formulating ideas about Europe's current debate on migration and asylum-seeking. --Charlotte De Blois, Asian Affairs
Winner of the 2016 Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Winner of the 2015 Douglass C. North Research Award, Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics (SIOE) Finalist for the 2016 Hamilton Book Awards, University Co-operative Society, University of Texas at Austin Winner of the 2015 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society Honor Book, 2015 Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature, Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Hsu's well-researched study focuses on the ways in which certain categories of the same ethnic group were designated as exempt and thus permitted admission... A worthy read, as it fills a gap in our understanding of the history of U.S. immigration policy and the implications of this policy in educational history. --Eileen H. Tamura, History of Education Quarterly This book will ... provide relevant historical context for anybody formulating ideas about Europe's current debate on migration and asylum-seeking. --Charlotte De Blois, Asian Affairs
Author Information
Madeline Y. Hsu is associate professor of history and past director of the Center for Asian American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her books include Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home and the coedited anthology Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture.
